Word: smiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meets Sister Marguerite, a nun who is frustrated in her attempts to get raped. Heather Gunn, as Marguerite, gives the play's best performance. Shrill and shrewd, Gunn glides from comedy to tragedy to opera, landing squarely on top of each one. She even gets Howells' grumpy Toulon to smile on occasion...
...debate -- and perhaps even Dukakis' chance to inspire a late-inning rally to win the election -- may have been lost in those opening two minutes. George Bush strode onto the stage in Los Angeles determined to prove with an avuncular assortment of smiles, chuckles, winks and asides that he was the affable heir to Ronald Reagan. But even when Dukakis tried to compete in this smile-button sweepstakes, his eerie grin had the spontaneity of a Dale Carnegie student practicing before the mirror. Asked why he did not appear more "likable," Dukakis felt compelled to launch into a petty aside...
...Ireland's hard-line Protestant leader the Rev. Ian Paisley stood up and unfurled a red placard that read POPE JOHN PAUL II ANTICHRIST. In case that was not clear enough, Paisley roared, "Antichrist! I renounce you and all your cults and creeds." The Pope gave a slight, bemused smile while members of the Parliament shouted Paisley down. A brief scuffle broke out as they dragged him from the chamber...
...chose instead to smile and see Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
POLITICS has its own hidden legends--like Boston's Bill Sutton, a short, gray-haired man of 75 with a wrinkled face and a youthful smile. Sutton traces his history back to an old style of Boston politics that has lost its place in the high-powered, media-conscious world of the 1980s...